Oh fuck it's the future

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

Don't worry. It wont be long till someone develops faster and cheaper and more reliable methods. I'm sure.

And that's what worries me.

[Osterbaum]

But why? I see no problem with such scientific develpment itself. The problems I do see however, are problems to do with these things being in corporate hands.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Loyal

And that's what worries me.

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

But why? I see no problem with such scientific develpment itself. The problems I do see however, are problems to do with these things being in corporate hands.

I know why he's worried. Prepare to shit your pants upon reading this article.

That's what the future has in store for us.

[Magus]

What is 3 feet above my monitor? 300 million? A billion? The number on the graph is 10,000,000, this is not a very troubling number. It is .16% of the world population. Unless three feet above my monitor is a billion or something, in which case it is 1/6 of the population, MMORPG playing is still a minority hobby.

The amount of people playing MMORPGs doesn't have much to do with genetics, though, so I'm assuming you're saying that advances in genetics will allow us to do these things--look like elves or what have you, through some kind of mutation. I think it would be hard to do this to something that hasn't developed yet, like an embryo, and even harder to do to something that has already developed, in any way close to getting what you really want. So the advances if possible seem like they're hundreds or thousands of years in the future, in which case what we want to look like may have changed considerably.

Most of the other stuff doesn't have to do with genetics, but could be argued against fairly easily. Lots of weaknesses could be found with the premises.

Luckily it is just a humorous article and not to really be taken seriously.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Magus

What is 3 feet above my monitor? 300 million? A billion? The number on the graph is 10,000,000, this is not a very troubling number. It is .16% of the world population. Unless three feet above my monitor is a billion or something, in which case it is 1/6 of the population, MMORPG playing is still a minority hobby.

The amount of people playing MMORPGs doesn't have much to do with genetics, though, so I'm assuming you're saying that advances in genetics will allow us to do these things--look like elves or what have you, through some kind of mutation. I think it would be hard to do this to something that hasn't developed yet, like an embryo, and even harder to do to something that has already developed, in any way close to getting what you really want. So the advances if possible seem like they're hundreds or thousands of years in the future, in which case what we want to look like may have changed considerably.

Most of the other stuff doesn't have to do with genetics, but could be argued against fairly easily. Lots of weaknesses could be found with the premises.

Luckily it is just a humorous article and not to really be taken seriously.

Don't take it seriously now, but be ready to when those who already do start making steps toward those developments. Supernerd and MMO nerd is a combination that brings great change to humanity. I expect some insane advancement to come before 2030.